Azure Cosmos DB Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Cosmos DB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 111 116
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 12 8 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.59% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.07% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £456 £418 £439
25th Percentile £469 £425 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile - £638 £638
90th Percentile £502 £649 £660
Central London median daily rate £500 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% -1.36% -4.35%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

Azure Cosmos DB falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 848 751 900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.47% 42.05% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 492 634
10th Percentile £338 £394 £363
25th Percentile £436 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £749
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.82% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -63.81%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Cosmos DB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure Cosmos DB job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Azure App Service
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Storage
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Azure Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Database Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) DBA
3 2 (16.67%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Java Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Junior
3 2 (16.67%) Junior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Junior Java Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Junior Java Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Junior Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Django
1 2 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 2 (16.67%) Flask
1 2 (16.67%) Next.js
1 2 (16.67%) React
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) AI
1 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
1 4 (33.33%) Observability
1 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Data Extraction
3 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Use Case
3 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Bicep
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAI